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Hey friends! Thanks for stopping by today! Before we begin, I wanted to remind you to follow along with me on Pinterest, Instagram, Twitter, HomeTalk and Facebook, so you don’t miss another post! Also, if you missed our Spring mantel, click here for lots of diy tips and farmhouse goodness!

I love this time of year…the cool breeze that gently moves through our open doors/windows, the sound of nature that seems to sing a little louder and the days that go a little longer. We can leave the doors open without worrying that we’ll let out heat or a/c. New birth appears — in the colorful flowers, the fresh, green grass and the trees that are all blooming. This new birth also reminds me of Easter, where we celebrate the death and resurrection of our Lord and Savior! Did I mention that I love Spring??!! 😉

And decorating our table for this beautiful season was so much fun. When I was trying to decide how I wanted to decorate our home this year, I knew I really wanted to have that natural, rustic feel with soft greenery, so I’m really excited to share with you how this tablescape turned out! I didn’t spend over $10 for any one item, and half of this decor is diy! I shopped my house for the other essentials. Actually, most of you probably already have these items in your own home as well! And if you missed our live video tutorial on how I styled our table and mantel for Spring, please click this link here to watch the replay. 😉

Let’s start with the first layer…the table runners. I had some thin, white fabric sitting around, so all I did to make this runner was tear a 2-foot strip of fabric lengthwise. Then, I hot-glued 4 layers of ruffles to this runner on either end. Very easy!

Now that my runners were complete, it was time to shop my house for the accessories. Again, I was going for that natural, rustic look, so when it came to gathering accessories, I kept my mind on what was a “natural” accessory: antlers, greenery, white beans (I’ll get to that later), flowers, birch, and nests. And then of course, you want to add a variety of textures: fabrics, wood, moss and metals.

What do you think about these faux-greenery chargers? They’re so easy to make, and I love how natural they look! Click here for that post. You’ll love making them, and they were only $5 each! Score!

Also, have you noticed those white, fabric napkins? Well, they’re actually feedsack dish towels, and they’re huge and soft! You can find a four-pack at Target or Walmart for under $5….Recently, I found a 10-pack at Walmart for under $8! You definitely need to have at least one set in your home! 😉 Also, the white plates are a thrift-store purchase that were 25 cents each.

When setting up your centerpiece, be sure to add a variation in height and texture. Also, don’t forget that you want to be able to see your family’s or guests’ faces, so don’t make your decor too tall, right? 😉

When shopping my house, I found an old, vintage box and turned it upside down to add a “stage” for my old, concrete pots. The birch wood slice is from my sweet mama, and the glass cloche is a staple that I got from PB Outlet. The variety of gold candleholders are from thrift stores, and I haven’t paid more than $1 for any of them! The faux, pink peony is from a local crafts’ store that I got half-off.

I love our gold flatware! You can dress them up or down, and they pair really well with our gold candleholders!

I love our dining table and cane-chairs set! I found these beauties at Goodwill a couple of years ago. Back then, they were a tired and outdated dining set, but with a little tlc, it’s gorgeous and adds the perfect farmhouse touch! Click here to see some before and after shots, as well as mistakes I made during this project. 😉

Thanks so much for stopping by! Again, if you’d like to see the replay on how I styled our table and mantel, please click this link here. 😉 I hope you found some inspiration for your Spring table! What did you like best? How are you planning to incorporate Spring into your home? I’d LOVE to hear about it! Comment below, or stop by Pinterest, Facebook or Instagram…It always makes my day to hear from my sweet readers!

Hey friends! The weather’s feeling more and more like Spring here in Georgia, plus Easter is just around the corner. So, it’s high time we all begin to decorate for this beautiful season!

The first place I am choosing to focus on this season is our dining table. However, I didn’t really know how I was going to decorate our table. I needed inspiration. Of course, Pinterest is always one of the first places I visit, but sometimes just walking physically through a store — the smells, the colors, the textures — really helps to get my creative juices flowing. So, when I found this beautiful watercolor table runner from HomeGoods the other day, I chose to make it my focal point for our tablescape! The soft pastels with the pretty painted flowers screamed Spring in a soft way to me.

After choosing the focal point, I found some pretty, yellow plates that were in the same color palette as my runner. Next, I found some shabby chic, clear glasses with little bunnies on them. These glasses pulled out the same greens as the runner.

Also, I love how faux flowers are beginning to look more and more like REAL flowers. Wouldn’t you agree?? At one of the local crafts stores nearby, there were two separate types of peonies…the $5 kind and the $15 kind. I chose the latter. It just looked more real, the colors were more vibrant, and it felt like an actual flower! And with the 40% off sale, and then my additional 20% off coupon, I was able to get each stem at about $7 each. Not bad considering that one real stem would cost me $10 at my local flower shop! Plus, with my new fake flowers, I can re-use them over and over again, and I don’t even have to worry about remembering to water them. I’d say it’s a win-win!

So, let’s get started with how these items came together for our Spring tablescape. First off, I cleaned our table to give this space a blank slate.

Next, I added the first layer, which was a white tablecloth. (Now, I realize these first couple of steps are pretty self-explanatory, but I just wanted to show you from the beginning how this setting came together. Please bear with me!) 😉

And then it was the lovely table runner from HomeGoods…

After ensuring that the runner was evenly placed on the table, next came the green-grass chargers. I love how they bring out the greenery on the runner.

Now that I had my staples and the color palette I wanted to use for my table, it was time to put things together!

Tablescape #1

I started out with the yellow plates.

And as I mentioned before, the soft, green bunny glassware looked perfect with the watercolor runner, the yellow plates and the chargers!

First, I took my 4-pack flour sack dish towels and folded each one up to make 4 napkins. (Everyone needs to have at least one pack of these towels in their home!! You can do so much with them…but that’s a whole different blog post for another day.) 😉 I just folded them so that the plate would stick out on either side. Next, I chose to use gold flatware to pull out the yellow tones in the runner.

To add to the centerpiece, I inserted faux hydrangeas into thrifted, milk glass vases.

Tablescape #2

To switch it up a little, I replaced the hydrangeas with these beautiful faux peonies. Then, I replaced the flour-sack napkins with my collection of dainty, floral plates that pull out the pinks, yellows and greens from the runner.

Oh, and I felt there needed to be more pops of pink on the table, so I searched and searched for the perfect statement, and I finally found scraps of pink and white ticking fabric (that I bought at a yard sale). The funny thing is they were already cut into leaf-like patterns. How perfect was it that I could make them look like extensions of the peonies! I really love it!

Tablescape #3

Lastly, my third choice was to replace the yellow plates and dainty china with simple, white plates that I purchased for 99 cents each at a thrift store.

I also added some fun, pink stripey straws and more hydrangeas and peonies in thrifted, milk glass vases. 🙂

So, here are my ideas for Spring tablescapes…done 3 ways. I hope you’ve been inspired to create a colorful and thrifty Spring tablescape for your own home! I’d love to hear your thoughts! Comment below, or stop by and say hey on Pinterest, Instagram, Twitter, HomeTalk and Facebook. It always makes my day to hear from my sweet readers!